All midfielder-extraordinaire Teresa Rodriguez wants to do is win her seventh-grade soccer championship with her best friends and celebrate by dancing on the field. However, when her world comes crashing down when her father is deported to Mexico, Teresa must shift focus to her family and the care of her younger brother and sister. Along the way, Teresa and her teammates must help two new struggling teammates, who came to America from Guatemala without their parents. Counterattack, the first book in this Teresa Rodriguez middle-grade trilogy, is about a girl's love of soccer, how family and friendships create unbreakable bonds and how a girl and her teammates overcome obstacles on and off the field.
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Peter Aronson is a former legal affairs journalist, a former attorney in New York City, and now he writes children's books (www.peteraronsonbooks.com) and short stories.
His first two middle-grade books were part of his Groundbreaker Series, about extraordinary individuals doing extraordinary things: BRONISLAW HUBERMAN: FROM CHILD PRODIGY TO HERO, THE VIOLINIST WHO SAVED JEWISH MUSICIANS FROM THE HOLOCAUST was published in 2018. JEANNETTE RANKIN: AMERICA'S FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN was published in 2019.
Aronson's middle-grade novel, MANDALAY HAWK'S DILEMMA: THE UNITED STATES OF ANTHROPOCENE, about young teens fighting global warming, was published in 2021.
Kirkus Reviews called it: "A scathing work and an essential blueprint for youth battling climate change."
In 2025, Aronson published his middle-grade soccer trilogy, a series of novels about Teresa Rodriguez, a young teen who learns about life on and off the field when her father is suddenly deported and she must juggle family responsibility, team leadership, friendships and her love for the game. The books, COUNTERATTACK, THE COMEBACK and THE LAST CHANCE, are a young teen's saga for our complex and troubled times.
For more information about Aronson's books: See www.peteraronsonbooks.com
or email peteraronsonbooks@gmail.com